NGD...

[Dogs of Doom]

I did it... (hint)



you guys will probably laugh, but, I bought my 1st Gibson Les Paul ever...

It's a 2011 Teaburst (plaintop) w/ 1960 spec's...

My only other Gibson acquisition, in life, was an SG, back in the '80s. I hated it, IMO, it was a POS.

I had always wanted a guitar like Jimmy Page's, the plaintop sunburst. I'm not too much for figured tops on the LP.

Just got home w/ it, & haven't plugged her in yet. Just alcohol'd the strings to get her drunk before I.... well, you know the drill. I just wanted to clean any dirt/corrosion off the strings & let them settle a bit. So, this snapshot is a teaser...

Look Vin, it even came w/ a pickguard already on it! ... The pickguard has 1960 engraved on it...

The guy who got it, said he used to live in NY, did a lot of deals w/ Sam Ash, & had a buddy working there. His buddy would call him whenever something he thought was cool showed up... who knows that's what he said...

Anyway, I've looked at a lot of ad's in the last year + & haven't seen anything that's caught my eye, until this one...

I'll take more pic's later & jam on it today sometime...

******update*****

here's my official photo (for now)

 

[Kutt]

Congrats! Better late than never. LP = Peanut Butter, Marshall = Jelly

 

[LyseFar]

HNGD
More photos please…..

 

[BlueX]

From one die-hard Page fan to another: 'bout time!

Congrats on that one. Looks super cool. Hope you like playing it!

+1 on more pics.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

thanks guys... The guy said he hardly played it. You can tell it's been played, but, you can also tell that it's a closet case queen...

The case is all shiny & new (minus the new case smell - since it's 13 years old), like it hasn't been out of the closet much. The guitar has no scratches, nicks, bumps... It was a little dirty, he obviously didn't clean it up, but, it wasn't real dirty, you could just tell that it had been played & handled...

 

[fitz]

HNGD!
More LP porn please.

 

[Mitchell Pearrow]

Congratulations
HNLPD

 

[Bull Rock]

Super happy NGD to you Dogs! Obviously you're going to take that hideous piece of plastic off, then take pictures. Congrats man!

 

[Kuga]

HNGD! Looking forward for more pics.

 

[V-man]

Buying a LP is like taking a shit.

You can avoid it…even for a long time, but eventually you’re going to have to.

Then once you do, you feel better.

HNGD!

 

[Dogs of Doom]

thanks!

well, I do have my Hamer double cut & my Yamaha LP, which is a copy of this, somewhat...

Right now, I'd say the Hamer is the better guitar. Sounds just fly off of it. I play it aggressively, & it plays aggressive right back. It can also clean up just as well. This seems more a polite guitar. I can get aggressive out of it, but I have to dig in a lot harder, for less dividends...

But, it has it's own character, some things that I'm really digging, so, not to say that it's a slouch, I just have to work harder to get the sounds that I want & the sounds aren't necessarily what I'm used to getting w/ even less effort on the Hamer...

The Yamaha, is definitely not on par w/ either. I've tried installing pickups, pots, etc., & while it's like a heavy Les, it doesn't display much character. It's just a heavy guitar. Put hot pickups in it, it's just a heavy guitar w/ hot pickups. Put mellow pickups, it's just a guitar w/ mellow pickups...

but, yeah, I suppose having a guitar that says Gibson & Les Paul is something that one must do, at some point. I've held out this long... When I was a kid, I lusted after Les Pauls. I scored an Ibanez Artist (double cut) & it cured me of my LP GAS. I would compare LP after LP to it, & it to me was the better guitar every time, so I quit trying them out - a true LP killer story...

I've actually had my eye out for a LP bass, but... they are few & far between. When I was looking at them a few years ago, they were low in the $800+ range & the better ones were at around $1700. You could get a good one at $1400. Now, the beaters are selling for $2400 & the prices go up from there...

Not too many good looking burst basses out there...

I just had a couple hours on her & There's some good tones in there.

 

[Bull Rock]

What pickups are in that? I always mess with pickup height, pole piece height action and intonation until it sounds right to me. Give her a chance lol.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

What pickups are in that? I always mess with pickup height, pole piece height action and intonation until it sounds right to me. Give her a chance lol.

IDK, the guy that had it didn't know either...

Well, I'm keepin' it, just giving an honest review, after about 2½ hrs of getting used to her.

 

[DirtySteve]

Congrats!

I believe the 2008 - 2011 Standards came with Burstbucker Pros.

 

[Dogs of Doom]

&... just because I rate the Hamer much higher than it, doesn't make it so bad, it's just the Hamer is really that good...

 

[DirtySteve]

If you decide you want to try some other pickups might I suggest the Burstbucker 61s. My 2020 Standard came with BB 61s and I fully expected to hate them because I've hated all the other BBs, but I couldn't get rid of them no matter how hard I tried. I tried several different pickups in it because I wanted uncovered zebras for the look, but none of the pickups I tried sound as good as the 61s, I even put a $400 set of Bare Knuckles in it and they don't sound as good as the 61s. So the other day I found a set of 61s in reverse zebra on Reverb and ordered them, what I should have done to begin with. As you know, I'm an old school high gain guy (not modern metal) and the 61s are awesome for that, and everything else as a bonus. They've become my favorite pickups.

 

[Söulcaster]

HNGD

 

[JJ119]

Congratulations!!

HNGD!!

 

[Trumpet Rider]

Happy new guitar day, Dogs.
Instead of comparing the LP to the Hamer on the Hamer's terms, i.e., what the Hamer does well, find the LP's strengths. There are undoubtably things that the new guitar does better than the Hamer.

 

[jcm800gridlock]

Congratulations. We’ll definitely need more photos.